Evaluationof0 r M r 8 earthquake datasets in African – Asian regionduring1966–2015

Adagunodo, T. A. and Lüning, Sebastian and Adeleke, Adekunle Michael and Omidiora, Segun and Aizebeokhai, A. P. and Oyeyemi , Kehinde D. and Hammed, O.S. (2018) Evaluationof0 r M r 8 earthquake datasets in African – Asian regionduring1966–2015. Data in Brief, 17. pp. 588-603.

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Abstract

Thisarticleevaluatestheoccurrenceof0 r M r 8 earthquakedata setsfortheperiodof50years(thatis,January1,1966toDecember 31,2015)inAfricanandWesternAsiaregion.Itisboundedby latitude40° S to40° N andlongitude30° W to60° E withthefocal depthof0–700km.Seventyseventhousand,sixhundredand ninety-sixdatapointswerepresentedfortheanalysis.Thedata usedwereextractedfromearthquakecatalogofAdvancedNational Seismicsystemvia http://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/cnss/, anofficial websiteoftheNorthernCaliforniaEarthquakeDataCentre,USA. Eachdatumcomprisedtheearthquakeoccurrencedate,timeofthe earthquakeoccurrence,epicenter’s coordinates,focaldepthand magnitude.TheGutenberg-Richter’s relationshipbeingthelongest observedempiricalrelationshipinseismology,analysisofvariance andtimeserieswereusedtoanalyzetheseismicityofthestudy area.Annualdistributionsofearthquakeoccurrencebasedon magnitudevariationswiththelimit0 r M r 8 werepresented. ThetwoconstantsaandbintheGutenberg-Richter’s equation, magnitudeofcompleteness(MC)adjustedR-Squareand F-valuefor theperiodof1966–1975,1976–1985,1986–1995,1996–2005,2006– 2015,andtheentireperiodofinvestigationrangingfrom1966to

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	African plates Arabian plates b-value Gutenberg-Richter’s model Artificial neuralnetwork Earthquake magnitudes Focal depth Seismic events Seismographs Time series Tectonicstress
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Physics
Depositing User:	Mrs Hannah Akinwumi
Date Deposited:	28 Mar 2019 08:21
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2019 08:21
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/12534

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